Henriette Sontag was one of the great sopranos of the 1820s before marriage to the Sardinian diplomat Count Rossi took her from the stage; she returned to it twenty years later. Published in New York in 1852 to greet her American tour, this short book pairs a memoir of her career with sketches by Paul Scudo, Hector Berlioz, Ludwig Börne, Théophile Gautier and others.
A vivid piece of nineteenth-century opera celebrity, with first-hand impressions of how Sontag actually sang. Download the free EPUB.